Great Falls News

Gina Vasselli / The Item Bridge construction on U.S. 76/378 is about 43 percent complete and will continue through 2010.

An afternoon argument led to a homicide Saturday in Chester County, authorities say.

The Flopeye Cafe in Great Falls, South Carolina has at least a dozen forms of fried on its menu.

A former Chester County school trustee has made more than one appeal to school district officials asking them, on behalf of the custodians in the school district, to stop a plan to outsource school custodial services.

Two marked and three unmarked police vehicles with blue lights flashing lined the roadway in front of Jeff's Garage, 513 Chester Ave., Great Falls, around 2 p.m. Wednesday.

FAIR PLAY a ' The South Carolina Dept. of Transportation has announced that the SC Highway 59 bridge project over Cleveland Creek has been completed and the detour on SC 59 eliminated.

Fort Lawn has fired Police Chief Mike Revels after he was arrested Wednesday and charged with stealing money during an investigation in his previous job.

The chief of the Fort Lawn Police Department has been arrested, accused of stealing money during an investigation.

In South Carolina, a state with dozens of festivals, the Flopeye Fish Festival in Great Falls has to have one of the strangest names.

A woman has died after she fell from a dam in Chester County. The Herald reported Leila Brendell Gaston, 20, of Great Falls died Saturday night.

A South Carolina woman has died after she fell from a dam in Chester County. WIS News 10 talked to one of the men who was at her side when it happened.

Duke Energy said Monday that safety and security is as good as it can be at a Chester County dam where a woman drowned Saturday night.

Several flowers were placed near where a young mother fell more than 50 feet to her death over the weekend.

GREAT FALLS, S.C. Rescue crews have recovered the body of a woman that fell into the Catawba River Saturday night in Great Falls.

When: Saturday, May 23, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Where: Great Falls, S.C.; 2534 James Baker Blvd, off Highway 21 north of Great Falls at the Industrial park Cost: Admission is free; variety of vendors, crafts and concessions for sale Featuring food, fun and entertainment accompanied by the enthusiasm of a homecoming atmosphere, the festival attracts ...

Hosted by 'The Cowboys" team. enjoy a delicious spaghetti and meatballs supper on Saturday, May 23, 6 p.m. at Florence Congregational Church, 130 Pine Street.

Goldie W. Christopher, 89, of 327 West Prentiss Ave., died April 29, 2009, at Laurens County Hospital.

Eastern Chester County was the scene of two collisions Wednesday morning, one fatal.

A 30-year-old Little River man died Wednesday in a wreck along U.S. 21 in Chester County.

A Fort Lawn teen has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving death in connection with a December wreck that killed a 7-year-old boy, according to The Herald's news partner, WSOC-TV. Fort Lawn police say Antonio Celey, 17, stole a pickup truck Dec.